The briefing paper 'The future of the arts in Scotland' was put together as an urgent response to what is now considered as a crisis within the arts in Scotland. The paper was constructed with input from arts professionals across Scotland, has been distributed widely via various artists' and arts organisations email lists, blogs, and other online means, and put out as an artists' briefing prior to the meeting held on 10th December 2008.

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Creative Scotland

Creative Scotland is the merger and expanded remit of the public bodies, the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen. It remains a confusing and self-contradictory set of proposals overwhelmingly seeking to makes artists instruments of government policy – in the words of the bill, artists are to “support the government’s overarching purpose.”